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File:Maria Gaetana Agnesi.jpg|link=Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|1718: Mathematician,  philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] born. She will write the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus.
File:Maria Gaetana Agnesi.jpg|link=Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|1718: Mathematician,  philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] born. She will write the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus.
||1763 – Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist (d. 1829)
||1821 – Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and statistician (d. 1894)


File:Joseph_Fourier.jpg|link=Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|1830: Mathematician and physicist [[Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|Joseph Fourier]] dies. He initiated the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.
File:Joseph_Fourier.jpg|link=Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|1830: Mathematician and physicist [[Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|Joseph Fourier]] dies. He initiated the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.


File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1888: [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1888: [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
||1888 – Royal Rife, American microbiologist and instrument maker (d. 1971)
||1891 – The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world's first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today).
||1903 – Charles F. Brannock, American inventor and manufacturer (d. 1992)
||1916 – Ephraim Katzir, Israeli biophysicist and politician, 4th President of Israel (d. 2009)
||1938 – Joseph Strauss, American engineer, co designed The Golden Gate Bridge (b. 1870)
||1946 – Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman (b. 1890)
||1947 – Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
||1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
||1969 – Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus.
||1988 – A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
||2011 – STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour.
||2013 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1933)


File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] wins Pulitzer Prize for "unique and peerless accomplishments in four-dimensional photography."
File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] wins Pulitzer Prize for "unique and peerless accomplishments in four-dimensional photography."


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  • 1522: Mathematician Johannes Stöffler uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and preventprevent Crimes against mathematical constants.

    1522: Mathematician Johannes Stöffler uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and preventprevent Crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1718: Mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian Maria Gaetana Agnesi born. She will write the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus.

    1718: Mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian Maria Gaetana Agnesi born. She will write the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus.

  • 1830: Mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier dies. He initiated the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.

    1830: Mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier dies. He initiated the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.

  • 1888: Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.

    1888: Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.

  • 2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola wins Pulitzer Prize for "unique and peerless accomplishments in four-dimensional photography."

    2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola wins Pulitzer Prize for "unique and peerless accomplishments in four-dimensional photography."

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